Schools
150 open schools are in scope, including 86 primary and 24 secondary schools. Joseph Clarke School is the nearest published school at 297 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
IG8 9LJ
Hale End & Highams Park South · Waltham Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Waltham Forest
- Constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IG8 9LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- IG
- Postcode district
- IG8
- Postcode sector
- IG8 9
- Latitude
- 51.604365
- Longitude
- 0.001434
- British National Grid easting
- 538,700
- British National Grid northing
- 191,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Waltham Forest · E09000031
- Electoral ward
- Hale End & Highams Park South · E05013889
- Parish or community
- E43000221
- Westminster constituency
- Chingford and Woodford Green · E14001167
- Output area
- E00022027
- Lower layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 007D · E01004383
- Middle layer super output area
- Waltham Forest 007 · E02000901
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore IG8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 150
- Primary
- 86
- Secondary
- 24
- 297 m
Joseph Clarke School
Academy special sponsor led
- 381 m
Handsworth Primary School
Community school
- 468 m
Highams Park School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,670
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 947
- Anti social behaviour 564
- Vehicle crime 518
- Other theft 321
- Drugs 245
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- IG8 9 residents
- 9,996
Age bands in IG8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
1,827 residents
1,112 residents
2,419 residents
2,685 residents
1,488 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
59
within 5 km straight-line
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HANDSWORTH AVENUE, HIGHAMS PARK, LONDON, E4 9PD
ODS code F86004
395 m
THE FOREST SURGERY
2 MACDONALD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 4BA
ODS code F86026
1.2 km
RYDAL
375 HIGH ROAD, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 9QJ
ODS code F86012
1.4 km
QUEEN MARY PRACTICE
SOUTH WOODFORD HEALTH CENTRE, 114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86658
1.6 km
THE ELMHURST PRACTICE
114 HIGH ROAD, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2QS
ODS code F86064
1.6 km
THE MICROFACULTY
107-109 CHINGFORD MOUNT ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LT
ODS code F86638
1.6 km
THE OLD CHURCH SURGERY
SILVERTHORN CENTRE, 2 FRIARS CLOSE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 6UN
ODS code F86616
1.8 km
DR DHITAL PRACTICE
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86086
1.9 km
WALTHAM FOREST COMM & FAM HTH SERV LTD
6 LINFORD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 3LA
ODS code F86644
1.9 km
THE PENRHYN SURGERY
2A PENRHYN AVENUE, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5DB
ODS code F86005
1.9 km
SOUTHDENE SURGERY
THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86066
2.0 km
THE SHRUBBERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THE SHRUBBERIES, GEORGE LANE, LONDON, E18 1BD
ODS code F86641
2.0 km
GLEBELANDS PRACTICE
2 GLEBELANDS AVENUE, SOUTH WOODFORD, LONDON, E18 2AB
ODS code F86020
2.0 km
CHURCHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CHURCHILL TERRACE, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8DG
ODS code F86627
2.1 km
CHINGFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
109 YORK ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 8LF
ODS code Y01291
2.1 km
THE BROADWAY SURGERY
3 BROADWAY GARDENS, MONKHAMS AVENUE, WOODFORD GREEN, IG8 0HF
ODS code F86013
2.3 km
ADDISON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86607
2.5 km
THE BAILEY PRACTICE
COMLEY BANK SITE, 46 RAVENSWOOD ROAD, LONDON, E17 9LY
ODS code F86689
2.5 km
DR SHANTIR PRACTICE
354-358 FOREST ROAD, WALTHAMSTOW, LONDON, E17 5JL
ODS code F86626
2.5 km
LARKSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
1 LARKSHALL ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON, E4 7HS
ODS code F86664
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 59 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hollywood Way
BCT · Hale End
- 0.1 miles
Hollywood Way
BCT · Hale End
- 0.1 miles
Forest Mount Road
BCT · Hale End
- 0.2 miles
Haldan Road
BCT · Hale End
- 0.2 miles
Haldan Road
BCT · Hale End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Waltham Forest 007D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,065 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,670 published events cover 12 months, averaging 305.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 947 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.